Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 — a run of more than three decades — only one Division I athletics program has seen its men’s basketball team reach four straight Sweet 16s at the same time its football team has won at least nine ballgames four consecutive seasons.

Ohio State? Nope.

Texas? Nein.

Florida? Nyet, nyet, nyet.

Take a bow, Badgers.

You’d have to check your pulse twice over not to have a ball in Madison, but the good times have rarely been as good for the bread-winning programs at the University of Wisconsin as they are right now.

Since the fall of 2013, the men’s hoops team has reached the regional semis of the Big Dance four straight times; reached a Final Four in 2014 and 2015; made it to the national title game; and averaged 28.8 victories a season.

8 seed, my patootie.

Over the last four football campaigns, Bucky’s landed in three January bowls; one CFP/BCS bowl (2017 Cotton); notched wins in three straight postseason appearances (including the aforementioned Cotton); and averaged 10.3 wins per year.

(Fun little side note: Wisconsin is one of two Division I schools since 1985 to have a stretch of four straight Sweet 16s coincide with a period of at least three bowl wins — Michigan State, with four bowl victories, also pulled it off from 2011-12 through 2014-15.)

What’s even more remarkable about the Great Badger Renaissance is that both basketball and football have kept the standards high — and the party rolling — under the auspices of two different coaches. Bo Ryan handed the Kohl Center keys to former assistant Greg Gard in December 2015. In December 2014, Paul Chryst replaced Gary Andersen at Camp Randall.

Once is cute. Twice is a fluke. But four in a row? Four straight’s a different sort of beast altogether. Brian Lucas, Wisconsin’s director of athletic communications, crunched the numbers Tuesday in a release that framed an even more impressive landscape:

The Badgers aren’t just running with big boys.

They’re one of them.

More context: According to a USA Today database, Texas raked in the second-most reported revenue of any Division I program in 2014-15, with $183.5 million. Florida was sixth, at $147.1 million.

Wisconsin? No. 12, at $123.9 million. Heady stuff, but that was also just the fourth-highest revenue return in the Big Ten behind Ohio State ($167.2); Michigan ($152.5) and Penn State ($125.7).

Which means the Badgers are rubbing shoulders at the craps table with some of the fattest whales in the Power 5 game. And rolling boxcars, baby.